Radiocarbon dating and wood density chronologies of mangrove trees in arid Western Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Santini, Nadia S ^a   Hua, Quan ^b   Schmitz, Nele ^c   Lovelock, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; CHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GROWTH RATE; MANGROVE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION INDEX; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WOOD; WOOD DENSITY CHRONOLOGY;

AVICENNIA; CLIMATE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOOD;

EID: 84893043577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080116     Document Type: Article

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